Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Death of Gen. Logan Characteristics
Of Mrs. Logan's New Years
White House Reception.
The Probable Vacancy On the Supreme
= Bench-Gossip About the Next
Justice-The South.
Reagan's Bath and It's Result Discussed in
Washington Political Circles
Texas Notes.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The death of
Senator Logan will not seriously inter-
rupt the social festivities at Washington
this winter, and the entertainments will
progress with their accustomed vim after
the new year. A pail is over the city
now, and each household mourns the
death of public man who is perhaps bet
ter known in Washington than anywhere
else in the country. Senator Logan wss
identified with Washington and within q
year had purchased a home here. He was
alive to its interests and watched its
growth with no small degree
of personal satisfaction. Mrs.
Logan, than whom no more
popular woman ever lived, was the chief
spirit in the leading social and charitable
enterprises of the city. She was con-
nected with all the hospitals and was un-
firing in her efforts to promote the good
cause for which they were founded. Her
heart was "open as the day for melting
charity" and she never turned a deaf ear
to the wants of others. 1t is fitting
tribute the public are now paying to Mrs
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magnitude to make her comfortable the
rest of her life. | know of no public
woman who needs it more, or to whom it
will be such a blessing. Gen. Logan died
more than poor, for he was in debt over
$4,000 and had to depend entirely on
his salary to pay it off. He had no other
income, and $4,000 year in Washington
for public man with family is small
compensation indeed, and barely covers
the necessities Of life. doubt if there is
a man in the senate to-day who has less
financial resources than Senator Logan
had. Considerable unfavorable criticism
has been made of the proposition to raise
money for Mrs. Logan. Some say 1t is
bad precedent, others that this method of
showering charity upon public men or
women is un-Amerlcan and unnece sssry,
and that the custom is becoming hack
neyed. Whatever may be said in snsger to
these reflections, the present cass,is one
which cannot be asssiled on AMY such
grounds. Senator Logan wsslessentially
the soldiers friend, the leading volunteer
officer in the army, and, while he fought
against the South, yet he did his duty to
his country and to himself. No Drawer
man than he fought on the Union side,
none were more fearless, none more con-
scientious. He is dead, but Lot forgot
ten, and the memory of his heroic strug-
giles in the field, his career as states
man and politician, his hard battle with
q almost might say poverty, will long
be remembered by grateful people, who
are now doing honor to his memory.
The lace curtains which were ordered
three months ago for the White House
arrived on Thursday and have been hung
in the east room and other rooms on the
first floor. Everything will be in readi
ness for fine New Years reception to-
morrow, which promises to be most
brilliant affair. This reception at the
White House opens the festivities of the
winter and every one appears in the best
"bib and tucker" The tinsel uniforms
of the army and navy, whose name in
Washington is legion, make brilliant
displey contrasted with the various court
costumes of the foreign ambassadors and
their attaches. The ladies, too, in rich
attire, form no small portion of this
kaleidoscope picture at the Executive
Mansion on New Years day.
No defuite information has been
received here as to the condition
of Justice Woods of the supreme
court, who is i'll at Los Angeles,
Cal. Reports as to his health are
conflicting. His illness is said to be
critical by those who profess to know.
This is not surprising to his associates
on the bench. They do not expect that
he will ever be able to resume his seat
with them, as he has been falling rapidly
for more than a year past. When eX-Gov.
Hoadley of Ohio was here recently trying
some cases before the court, the rroba-
bility of the death of Judge Wood
was discussed, and it was sug-
gested that Gov. Hoadley would be
good man to receive the appointment
in the event of vacancy, Mr.. Hosdley
said it was painful to him to have his
name mentioned in this connection; that
he and Judge Woods had been intimate
friends from boyhood and he could not
allow himself to contemplate any such
contingency. He said further that should
Judge Woods die, the place by every rule
of right and propriety should go to some
eminent Democratic lawyer of the South.
Your correspondent Is of the opinion that
the South should be recognized in the
which now only contains one
Democrat to eight Republicans.
Succession to the supreme court is
necessarily slow. These positions are
for life, with $4,000 year, whether in
active service or retired. Such fat billets
are grestly sought after, and, when OBJ
tanned, few die and none resign. The
Democrats have not had a fair chance as
yet, and it will be many years, probably,
before majority of the bench are of the
Democratic faith. But all things come
to those who wait.
Mrs. Gen. Custer informs the New
York Mail and Express that the book she
is now engaged upon, descriptive of her
husbands life on the frontier, will not
be published till next summer. 1t will
cover period of nine years, including
two in Texas, 1866 to 1867, five in Kan
sas, from 1867 TO 1871.
Mr.. PM Armour, the millionaire meat
and pork packer of Chicago, who can
cause the stock market to rise and fall
according TO his own sweet will, slikes
Washington, but the hours of business do
not suit him. He says: 81 go to mans
hOQse at q O'Clock in the mOrnino and